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25% of americans expect to wait until age 80 to retire
By Patrick Lim  •  November 18, 2011
according to Wells Fargo's latest retirement survey that polled 1,500 middle-class Americans drew what i term as shocking revelations. some of the findings from the survey found that: a. on average, americans have only saved a mere 7% of retirement nest egg they were hoping to build b. respondents whose age ranges from 20 to 80 had median savings of only $25,000 when their median retirement savings goal was $350,000 c. 30 % of people in their 60a have saved less than $25,000 for retirement d. three fourths of middle class americans expect to work throughout retirement joe ready, director of wells fargo institutional retirement and trust said: "The fact that the vast majority of middle-class Americans expect to work well past the traditional retirement age has significant societal and economic implications. Will people be physically and mentally able to work later in life? What will it mean for young ......
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By Patrick Lim
Patrick is an Associate Director with Promiseland. He has more than 20 years of personal investment experience both in stock and shares and unit trusts. In his early years as an investor, he got burnt really bad in the infamous 1987 crash and again during the clob incident. With 2 decades of so-called battle scars behind him, the last few years (since 2003) have been good to him especially with his single country funds doing exceptionally well. On his investing style, he is both a technical analyst and fundamentalist. Patrick view wealth accumulation as part and parcel of the wealth management process but only if one has already executed his/her wealth protection planning on an on-going basis.
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